Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks • Hacker News Board

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by carbon8 » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:56 AM UTC

bd wrote: post #34

patrickaljord wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail had it for almost a year.

Gmail uses Flash (Adblock shows block Flash thingie). ---- Edit: upon further inspection, it seems Gmail indeed does use Flash [1], just for a different part of the upload process (progress bar?). Drag and drop is only supported in Chrome and Firefox [2], so I suppose this is HTML5. [1] https://mail.google.com/mail/uploader/uploaderapi2.swf [2] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...

I don't think so. Maybe it falls back to flash on some browsers, but it works just fine on Chrome with flashblock enabled.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by simonista » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:58 AM UTC

Transitions are pretty jerky for me, but really great idea. Thanks for open sourcing the code, I'm excited to see where this goes!

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:05 AM UTC

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Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:15 AM UTC

carbon8 wrote: post #51

bd wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail uses Flash (Adblock shows block Flash thingie). ---- Edit: upon further inspection, it seems Gmail indeed does use Flash [1], just for a different part of the upload process (progress bar?). Drag and drop is only supported in Chrome and Firefox [2], so I suppose this is HTML5. [1] https://mail.google.com/mail/uploader/uploaderapi2.swf [2] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...

I don't think so. Maybe it falls back to flash on some browsers, but it works just fine on Chrome with flashblock enabled.

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Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by waratuman » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:29 AM UTC

Dude, that is sick

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by gigawatt » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:46 AM UTC

Awesome. Only comment I have is that some way to tell how many images there are and where you are in the sequence would be useful.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by sathyabhat » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:49 AM UTC

This is awesome stuff, great job.

However, I dragged an image ( but did not have any extension) - and it mentioned that the file is not an image.

I know this is a rare case ( heck what are the odds of me selecting me 1 pic which does not have an extension!) Anyways, good stuff.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by weixiyen » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 3:56 AM UTC

For those of you who are interested in a future-proof file drop plugin based on FileReader(), here you go:

http://github.com/weixiyen/jquery-filedrop

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by jbm » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 4:33 AM UTC

I'm on Chrome 6 on Ubuntu. It's telling me that my browser isn't supported.

(Reason #101 why I hate browser sniffing, no one ever gets it right).

Beyond that, I wish you the best of luck, it sounds like something I can use.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by arfrank » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 4:34 AM UTC

Did you consider using the new GAE API for image serving? I think it requires objects to be actual blobstore objects rather than in the datastore as a blob property, but it does dynamic image thumbnails. It does do dynamic resizing of picture to a bunch of different sizes, but requires a slightly different workflow to get pictures into the db.